Capitalism and Capitalisms in Asia: Origin, Commonality, and Diversity

Venue : Seoul National University Asia Center, Youngwon Hall (#210) Tel : 02-880-2692

Opening Ceremony (9:30am-10:10am)Opening Remarks : Hyun-Chin Lim, Chair, Conference Organizing Committee Welcoming Remarks : Nak-In Sung, President, Seoul National UniversityCongratulatory Remarks : Min Keun Chung, President, National Research Foundation of Korea

Keynote Speech (10:30am-11:50am)Speaker 1: Kyong-Dong Kim, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, Seoul National University Speaker 2: Nederveen Pieterse, Professor, Global Studies and Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Session 1: Diversity of Asian Capitalisms (1:30pm-3:30pm)Speaker 1: Alvin Y. So, Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Yin-Wah Chu, Professor, Hong Kong Baptist UniversitySpeaker 2: Wolf Schäfer, Interim Dean, International Academic Programs and Services, Stony Brook UniversitySpeaker 3: Markus Pohlmann, Professor, Max-Weber-Institute of Sociology, Heidelberg University

Session 2: Business, Government and Network in Asia (4:00pm-6:00pm)Speaker 1: Myungkoo Kang, Director, Seoul National University Asia Center Jong-Cheol Kim, Research Fellow, Seoul National University Asia Center

Speaker 2: Rodrigo Luiz Medeiros da Silva, Professor, International Economics, Federal University for Latin American Integration

Speaker 3: Shimizu Takashi, Professor, Department of Advanced Social and International Studies, University of Tokyo

Day 1. October 22nd, 2015 (Thursday)

Keynote Speech (9:00am-10:20am)Speaker 1: Nan Lin, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, Duke University Speaker 2: Glenn Morgan, Professor, International Management, Cardiff University

Session 3: Innovation and Entre-preneurship in Asian Capitalisms (10:20am-12:30am)Speaker 1: Gary Herrigel, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of ChicagoSpeaker 2: Joonkoo Lee, Professor, School of Business, Hanyang University Hyun-Chin Lim, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, Seoul National UniversitySpeaker 3: Hideaki Miyajima, Director, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University

Session 4: Special Session on Ko-rean Capitalism (1:30pm-3:30pm)Speaker 1: Thomas Kalinowski, Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, Ewha Womans University Speaker 2: Hyungkee Kim, Professor, School of Economics and Trade, Kyungpook National UniversitySpeaker 3: Jin-Ho Jang, Professor, Division of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology

Session 5: Future of Asian Capital-ism: Challenges and Resilience (3:50pm-5:50pm)Speaker 1: Tobias ten Brink, Visiting Professor, Institute for Political Science, Goethe University Frankfurt

Speaker 2: Gi-Wook Shin, Director, The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University

Speaker 3: Andrew Rosser, Director, Indo-Pacific Governance Research Centre, University of Adelaide

Day 2. October 23rd, 2015 (Friday)

Organized by Seoul National University Asia Center and Korean Social Science Research Council

Sponsored by National Research Foundation of Korea